Opinion: In today’s pages: Sudan, stimulus, pre-post-racial America
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The editorial board says it’s time for the world to live up to its promises to Sudan:
Appeasement and negotiation from a position of weakness have not and will not stop the thuggery of the oil-rich Sudanese regime. Only muscle will do. But the ‘civilized’ world has done next to nothing to enforce meaningful economic sanctions, hasn’t even moved to arrestthe indicted war criminals and, disgracefully, has yet to provide even one of the helicopters that U.N. peacekeepers need. It’s time to face facts: Unless the U.N. gets far more political, economic and military support from its posturing but so-far feckless members, it may as well pack up its blue helmets and go home.
The board also examines the bipartisan ‘stimulus package’ for the economy, and reacts to state schools chief Jack O’Connell’s annual education address.
‘Beasts of No Nation’ author Uzodinma Iweala argues race is still a problem in supposedly ‘post-racial’ America. Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream asks if a rapist deserves a military burial. And columnist Tim Rutten says the City Council should let LAPD reform go forward.
On the letters page, readers react to a court’s decision to deny experimental drugs to the terminally ill. Encinitas’ Steve Weller says, ‘This is yet another instance of compassionate conservatives killing people in order to protect them. Iraq comes to mind.’